Welcome T Stuart! It would seem the masternodes are centralized points of failure vs a fully trustless decentralized anon protocol like PoSa or Cryptonote.
I was one of the biggest supporters of DRK. I got in on Day 1 and held through all the ups and downs. 7 months later and this is what we have? I sold all my DRK before the dip and got out. You should do the same. The pipeline here at Cloakcoin is going to change the crypto landscape. Moving beyond the anontech and into value added anon services. 7 months from now Cloak will have an entire suite of value added services. The roadmap of an anonymous decentralized paypal/ebay ecosystem is not too far away.
Cloakcoin has been out 3 weeks and its surpassed DRK on every level. Decoupled exchange trading in-wallet 1st for crypto (CloakTrade) // Real Trustless Anon - PoSa another 1st for bitcoin forks (CloakSend) // coming soon payment gateway + decentralized marketplace (OneMarket). You can still get in now before the price surpasses DRK.
Nicelly said. I think Evan Duffield should shut down his failing project (another 3 weeks to another attempt to darksend, wtf..) and put on some Cloak